Chili Ron Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Howdy, I get the idea to shoot some new guns and the range is open this morning so I get stuff together and head out. When I get there it is a nice day not too hot, no rain about perfect. And the range is nearly empty. That's weird. I open the door and skeeters are in my face. I open the trunk and pick up my gear and skeeters are on my hands and arms and in my face. I walk the length of a car and just want to drop everything and slap skeeters. So I put everything back, and leave. That's why the range is so empty. So I went and filled out paper for my first 73. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Skeeters gotta eat too, Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Feel sorry for them skeeters. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Be a real wonder if we don't have a bumper crop along the Front Range of Colorado this year! Problem is they can carry West Nile disease, and some skeeters that have been live-trapped north of here have already been shown to be carrying! I recollect one year where I was at a match, and was wearing (fortunately) my cavalry sack coat (100 % wool), and had sprayed the coat with 100% DEET. The danged critters were landing and maybe drinking the stuff! Pre-shoot briefing told any shooter that bagged one weighing 2-lbs or more could keep it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 What are skeeters?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 What are skeeters?? Says the man that once lived in Florida?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I blissfully forgot about em after moving here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 What are skeeters?? Fly'n democrats. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted July 21, 2015 Author Share Posted July 21, 2015 Howdy Bob, any houses fer sail round your place. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Howdy Bob, any houses fer sail round your place. Best CR Some days it seems half the dang county is for sale. But nobody seems to be buyin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Makes one wonder who is really at the top of the food chain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I'm wondering if you are holding skeeters to blame when it's really some other species entirely, leaving skeeters falsely alleged to have been guilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastmaster Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Shoot BP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I heard that they have such big skeeters in Alaska that one of them landed at Eilison AFB, and they filled in full of 20,000 gallons of JP-7 before they figured out it wasn't a B-52! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Load up on Vitamin B, I think that is the one. Gets in your blood and taste like tofu to the skeeters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee McGrutt Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Badger, is right Vit. B, also garlick works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 They'll still find you-Trust me. Work'd AK in the summer and fall all over for Western Airlines(WAL)-They love'd me-- OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorelei Longshot, SASS #44256 Life Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Try the clip on mosquito repellant things. They work great and you don't get all sticky from the sprays. There are also some wrist bands that supposedly work too. Haven't tried them, but the clip ons work great here in Texas where we always have lots of the flying blood suckers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee McGrutt Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 The electronic ones also seem to work well. Had three of them up on the Allagash, a few years back while fishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Deck 100366 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Heck, ya'll are going about it wrong. we throw a saddle on the skeeters around here and go for a ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee McGrutt Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Those Oklahoma skeeters must be pretty tame. Saddle a Maine skeeter and a fellow would be lucky to make it 8 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What are skeeters?? All the skeeters that feed on human blood are females. So Bob, skeeters are "A bunch of blood-sucking females!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee McGrutt Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 All the skeeters that feed on human blood are females. So Bob, skeeters are "A bunch of blood-sucking females!" I was married to one of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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